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H. L. BULLEN. PRINTER'S CABINET. APPLICATIQN HLED AUG.2\. 191s. RENEWED JULY 8. ma.

Patented Nov. 5,1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Nov. 5, 191s.

Application filed August 21, 1915, Serial No. 46,719. Renewed July 8, 1918. Serial No. 243,964.

To all whom it may concern:

Be :it known that I, HENRY L. BULLEN, a itizen of the United States, residing at Newark, Essex county, and State Of NGW Jersey have invented and discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Cabinets, specification.

In printing establishments of common arrangement, much time is wasted by compositors in obtaining the type and spacing elements necessary in setting up ordinary forms of printed matter, due not only to the unscientific arrangement of the work-cab inets in relation to the facilities for storing the type and spacing elements, but likewise to the unscientific arrangement and construction of the cabinets themselves, in which such type and spacing elements are stored and arranged for use.

7 My present invention relates to printing otfice furniture and particularly to tops for compositors work-cabinets, consisting chiefly in a system for the arrangement of the compartments for containing spaces, quads, leads, slugs, etc., and in the combinations, assembly and form thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully descubed and claimed.

he purpose of the invention is to provide a cabinet with a compositors work-bank with case,-or cases and racks, arranged in alley formation, not only to give ample working room to the compositors and place within their convenient reach the necessary supply of type and a complete and proper assortment of spacing materials, but to have such type and spacing materials arranged in relative quantities and position, another, so that the com positor will have a complete. supply of each assortment for a given amount of work, the supply of one assortment being comparatively equal to the supply of every other assortment in a given quantity of work of average character. A further purpose is to provide compartments in such work-bank of a form adapted to contain the spacing elements in a position easily seized and removed by the hand of the compositor. This and other details of construction and arrangement of parts serve to increase the general productive capacity of each compositor and effect a saving of expense and time in the operation of a composing room,

of which the following is a adapted, when- In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspectlve view of a compositors work-cabinet having the improved 7 form of top,

Fig. 2 a detail perspective view of the spacing materials case, removed from the top, 7

Fig. 3 a transverse sectional view on the line 3+3 of Fig. 2 and showing the inclined bottoms. w L

Fig. 4 a sectional view taken on the line 434 of Fig. 2, showing the rounded bottoms, an

Fig.5 is a sectional view of-a singlecompartment taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4,, showing the rounded bottoms.

eferring. to the construction in further detail, the cabinet, which may be of sheet metal or wood, consists of the ordinary frame comprising end members 1 and 2, base d a'middle member 4 receiving the type c rawers 5 arranged in two tiers. The cabinet, top is constructed of a pair of end pieces 6 and ably secured tothe 9 and 11 and the bottom 8 to reslugs in lengths from ten to fty-picas each, graduated by ems.

he spacing materials case illustrated in Figs. 2 to 5 comprises a tray 12 divided by strips 14 and 15 into three sections 16, 17 and 18. The section 16 is divided and subdivided by strips 19 into compartments for holding spaces and quads of eight or more different sizes, of approximately sixteen pounds of each size. The compartments are of such size and'so arranged that a complete supply of each assortment of spaces and quads is available, 2'. assortment will be relatively equal to the supply of every other assortment, and the sizes of spaces and quads most used are located to be the easiest reached by the compositor. The section 17 has a main dividing strip 20 and subdividing strips 21, forming the upper and lower divisionsof compartments to contain copper thin and onepoint brass spaces. Said compartments are arranged in four rows of eight or more compartments in each row, and eah compartment is constructed with a rounded bottom 6., the supply-of one I and perpendicular walls 23, thereby making it easy to pick out the smallest and thinnest space without the slightest difficulty. Much time is lost in extracting copper thin spaces from the present used square bottom boxes.

The case section 18 has subdividing strips 2+ forming conmartments to contain metal spaces of different points, and double depth compartments for leads and slugs of different lengths, graduated by pica ems. These compartments have inclined bottoms 25, which prevent the leads or slugs from being wedged, and to enable the leads to be picked out with the fingers without difficulty when the compartments are filled. The compartments 2i are adapted to contain leads and slugs from one and one-half to nine and onehalf ems, and the rack 13 is adapted to hold lengths of leads from ten to forty picas and slugs from ten to fifty picas, graduated by ems.

The top may be constructed as a separate article adapted for use on two full-sized flat top cabinets of the proper height, or on cabinets and ease stands with bracket tops, or in fact, on any cabinet of standard height which has a removable top.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention, and therefore I do not wish to be limited to such features except as may be required by the claims.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A spacing materials case for printers use comprising a tray,

a plurality of trans- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the versely crossing strips secured in the tray and providing compartments to receive the assortment of spacing material, said compartments being disposed and of the relative size to hold a complete and proper assortment of spacing materials whereby each assortment will b comparatively equal to the supply of every other assortn'ient, said compartments having integral and inclined bottoms whereby to facilitate removal of the spacing members, substantially as set forth.

A spacing materials case for printers use comprising a tray, a plurality of transversely crossing strips secured in the tray and providing compartments: to receive the assortment of spacing material, said compartments having rounded bottoms and perpendicular walls whereby to facilitate removal of the spacing members, substantially as set forth.

3. A spacing materials case for printers use comprising a tray, a plurality of transversely crossing strips secured in the tray and providing compartments to receive the assortment of spacing material, certain of said compartments having inclined bottoms and others of said compartments having rounded bottoms and perpendicular walls whereby to facilitate removal of the spacing members, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Newark, New Jersey, this 18th day of August, A. D. nineteen hundred and fifteen.

CLARENCE C. VVARDER, FRANK B. BERRY.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

